· Public charity
The Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research and Information Inc
The organization is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity devoted to empowering brain tumor patients and their families.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k7 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AVETA BIOMICS INC | $100,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF | $50,000 |
| CURTANA PHARMACEUTICALS INC | $50,000 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF | $50,000 |
| CANCER COMMONS | $50,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $35,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTE | $35,000 |
| ONCOSYNERGY INC | $25,000 |
| THE CURE STARTS NOW FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| A BETTER PLACE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL BRAIN TUMOR REGISTRY US | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $288k · revenue +132%- TCTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC6× · 2017–2022 · $175k · revenue +110%
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC4× · 2019–2022 · $140k · revenue +61%
Funded once
THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +42%- PCPERSONALIZED CANCER MEDICINE PLLCone grant, 2021 · $75k
- URUSF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Commons and the most unlike its peers is A Better Place Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 58 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CURE STARTS NOW INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER COMMONS ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL BRAIN TUMOR REGISTRY OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds CLINWIKI ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds A BETTER PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research and Information Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.